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A state auditor report has found the Mass Save program provides a skewed distribution of its resources favorably benefitting higher-income communities, with Worcester among the top Massachusetts municipalities negatively impacted. […]

Saint-Gobain is continuing to expand its Northborough industrial research campus, having received a $195,000 tax credit from the state.

Westborough-based defense optics manufacturing firm Kopin Corp. has entered into a securities purchase agreement for private investment in company shares expected to raise $41 million.

Athol Hospital has risen to the top as the most profitable in Central Massachusetts, according to data released Thursday.

The announcement by Applegreen arrived the night before the Senate Post Audit and Oversight Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on the procurement controversy. But that hearing was called off Tuesday due to "MassDOT and Applegreen’s refusal to participate in this week’s hearing," chair Sen. Mark Montigny's office said.

Unemployment held steady or decreased in August throughout Central Massachusetts as the region experiences vacillating employment trajectories that change direction on a monthly basis.

Two other L.L.Bean locations operate in Central Massachusetts: one store is located at The Shops at Blackstone Valley in Millbury, and the other at The Shops at Highland Commons in Hudson, near the town’s border with Berlin. 

Medical and defense optics manufacturer Precision Optics is relocating its corporate headquarters from Gardner to a larger site at the King Street Common mixed-use development in Littleton.

Framingham State University’s STEM, students, faculty, and academic programs just received a major boost in funding as a former university professor and his wife have pledged more than $2 million to the Central Massachusetts school.

Deegan joins the firm from Altra Industrial Motion, a Braintree-based manufacturer of power transmissions.